Awelye abie-loy-collection the federal government established Yuendumu

the federal government established Yuendumu community to deliver rations and welfare services to the Aboriginal people who had been working with the Labour Corps in Alice Springs during WWII

Its tiny black seed became central to her imagery

but her chosen medium is ceramics

It is an interesting exercise to watch her paint as Barbara has mastered the flow and juddering

Awelye abie-loy-collection the federal government established YuendumuGalyas work is distinctive and highly individual. Her early paintings, dating from around 2004, drew on Portulaca oleraceaknown as munyerooa grass once abundant in the Utopia region and an important food source for generations. Its tiny black seed became central to her imagery, with Galya adopting its half circle form as a dominant motif in her paintings. Over fifty years of cattle grazing greatly reduced the abundance of this grass. In her paintings,